Friday, May 5, 2017

Event Update For 2017-05-04

The seas, lakes and oceans are now pluming deadly hydrogen sulfide and suffocating methane. Hydrogen sulfide is a highly toxic water-soluble heavier-than-air gas and will accumulate in low-lying areas. Methane is slightly more buoyant than normal air and so will be all around, but will tend to contaminate our atmosphere from the top down. These gases are sickening and killing oxygen-using life all around the world, including human life, as our atmosphere is increasingly poisoned. Because both gases are highly flammable and because our entire civilization is built around fire and flammable fuels, this is leading to more fires and explosions. This is an extinction level event and will likely decimate both the biosphere and human population and it is debatable whether humankind can survive this event.

A. More fires and more explosions, especially along the coasts, but everywhere generally.
B. Many more animal die-offs, of all kinds, and especially oceanic species.
C. More multiples of people will be found dead in their homes, as if they'd dropped dead.
D. More corpses found in low-lying areas, all over the world.
E. More unusual vehicular accidents.
F. Improved unemployment numbers as people die off.

Quote: "Firefighters in Limerick are tackling a fire which has broken out at an industrial premises on the outskirts of the city. The fire broke out at the ClearCircle Metals plant, formerly Hegarty Metals, which is located on the Ballysimon Road on the eastern side of Limerick city. It is understood the fire started inside a large quantity of scrap metal which is located at the premises."

Quote: "Firefighters from the Alicante Provincial Fire Consortium battled a fire in a scrap yard that burned around 2,000 square metres of scrapped vehicles in the town of El Escorratel, Orihuela (Alicante) on Thursday."

Quote: "A fire broke out in a auto body repair shop Thursday evening near the corner of Nongan Street and Jilin Road in Taipei's Zhongshang District at 9:50 p.m., according to firefighters on the scene. Witnesses reported hearing an explosion, followed by a loss of power in neighboring buildings. Flames were then spotted erupting from the Haohan Car Cutie Salon, which services luxury sports cars."

Quote: "William Braxton was on his way to Chamblee Station from the Airport station when he heard a 'chilling' announcement from the conductor on the train ahead of him: 'Fire, fire stop everything! There is smoke everywhere!' 'He sounded extremely panicked,' Braxton said, 'like he truly did not believe he was going to make it out alive.'"

Quote: "The latest gas-cylinder explosion follows a string of similar incidents across the UAE since mid-2016 causing deaths or injuries to victims."

Note: In how many of those explosions did they check the methane and hydrogen sulfide levels in the air and in the matter in the surrounding area? Oh, NONE of them?! Well then, they don't know what's causing these explosions. One thing for sure though: there will be lots more explosions. This is the 147th residential explosion in 2017...

Quote: "Three farm tractors were among the items lost in a tool shed fire Thursday at a property site in rural Crescent City. An 80 by 20 foot structure at 1568E and 2250N was gutted. Corn and soybean seed was also lost. No injury to report."

Quote: "Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to reports of a fire in a tyre shop on the Shornecliffe Industrial Estate in Folkestone, just after 1am. Two fire engines rushed to the scene to find that two vehicles, a Fiat 500 and VW Transporter, adjacent to the building were alight."

Quote: "A car was destroyed after ferocious flames engulfed it late last night. The incident, which took place on Market Road in Plympton, followed an unrelated large house fire which also erupted in the area just an hour before."

Note: Definitely related by general geographic area, timeframe, proximity to the ocean and the atmosphere...

Quote: "Crews arrived and found heavy smoke and fire coming from the garage and two vehicles also on fire. The fire then vented through the roof and extended into the attic. Shortly after the first units arrived on scene, the fire vented thru the roof and extended into the attic. The home suffered extensive fire damage to the garage, a bonus room above the garage and the roof. The rest of the house experienced heavy smoke and water damage."

Quote: "Crews are working a 30-plus-acre fire in the Bent Creek area of Pittman Center, according to the Sevier County Sheriff's Office The fire is located near the Bent Creek Golf Course, 3919 East Parkway, near Gatlinburg."

Quote: "The fire started around 4:15 p.m. and originated on a warehouse pallet according to Lower Providence Fire Marshal Josh Overholt. Overholt said fire crews placed water lines in the large commercial building, which quickly filled with smoke. When they got to the burning pallet, firefighters had to pull the materials off of it to extinguish the fire at its source."

Quote: "A fire involving telegraph poles on the ground, which spread to canal banking, required firefighters to use a hose reel and beaters to extinguish the flames. The crew turned over woodland and damped down the area before leaving."

Quote: "The whale is the fifth humpback to strand in Delaware waters in less than a year."

Quote: "'It is a cause for concern because this will be the fifth humpback whale that has stranded in Delaware in a 10-month period,' said Suzanne Thurman, executive director of MERR, Delaware’s marine mammal stranding team. 'We would normally see that in a 10-year period.'"

Quote: "Bay Area Fish and Wildlife officials are trying to determine the reason behind a spike in leopard sharks dying off around San Francisco Bay. Just Thursday, a large leopard shark was found after it beached itself in Burlingame near the Coyote Point Recreation Area. The concentration of dead leopard sharks is around the Foster City and Redwood Shores area, although numerous others have washed up in Alameda and Marin counties as well as San Francisco. Sean Van Sommeran and the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation have been following the seven week die-off."

Quote: "Battlefords RCMP said foul play is not suspected following the discovery of a body in the middle of the road on Thursday night. Police say the man was found dead on 102 St and 17th Avenue around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday. RCMP say it’s believed the man died from a medical emergency and an autopsy will be performed."

Quote: "An experienced Scottish skydiver has died while taking part in a jump in Thailand. James McConnell (69) known as Jim, landed in a reservoir north of the resort town of Pattaya after embarking on a skydive on Thursday. An official and friend at the skydiving centre he jumped with said he is '99 per cent certain' Mr McConnell had a heart attack or a stroke shortly after leaving the plane, causing him to lose some level of consciousness."

Quote: "Mr Hongjindapong said CPR was carried out after the skydiver was recovered from the reservoir, but it is thought he had not been breathing when he entered the water."

Note: Fall through some hydrogen sulfide, which is invisible, and one breath can give you a heart attack, stroke, seizure, knock you unconscious or you simply stop breathing due to respiratory paralysis. Same problem as the people slumping over unconscious or dead while driving...

Quote: "Four bodies have been found in a city's waterways in just four months, sparking fears of a 'serial killer' prowling the area. The male corpses were recovered from Bristol's floating Harbour and River Avon, with the most recent discovery taking place yesterday afternoon. The findings have prompted claims that a 'killer' - dubbed the 'Bristol pusher' - could be pushing unsuspecting victims into the waterways. But despite the latest discovery, police have again confirmed that they are not treating any of the deaths of the men as suspicious. A force spokesman said they 'appear to have been tragic accidents'."

Note: Too many people dying in the water here for the public to accept the deaths as 'coincidence' or 'accidents'. But the police can't afford to give any credence to the serial killer idea, because A) there isn't one; B) they'd be expected to catch a person who doesn't exist; and C) no matter what they do, or who they say they've caught, the deaths will continue. If there was some reasonable way for the authorities to blame a serial killer, I'm sure they would, but there isn't. Also in Bristol, six college students have died this year alone at a university. They've blamed ALL of those deaths on suicides. Color me skeptical on that...

Quote: "A motorist who crashed into a Long Beach restaurant, striking three patrons after he experienced a medical emergency and lost control of the wheel on Thursday has died, authorities said. The driver, identified only as a 53-year-old Seal Beach man, was transported to a Los Angeles hospital in critical condition. Long Beach police were notified today that he was pronounced dead at the hospital."

Quote: "An Escambia County Sheriff's Office (ECSO) Deputy has been hospitalized. Major Andrew Hobbs told Channel 3 News a deputy was having a medical emergency Thursday afternoon. The incident happened near the sheriff's office on St. Mary and Pace. Witnesses said the deputy had to be rescued from his patrol car."

Quote: "Emergency personnel work the scene of an injury accident Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of 11th Street and Carlton Avenue after a seizure caused a driver to run into a residence in the area, according to a release from LPD Captain Pat McClurg."

Quote: "David Justice, 57, of Corinth experienced a medical issue while driving near the Walton exit, police said. His car veered off the roadway and struck a parked tractor. He was taken to Saint Elizabeth Hospital, where he was pronounced dead."

Quote: "A driver suffering from an apparent medical episode struck the concrete coping around the fountain on Memorial Plaza in downtown Orangeburg on Thursday just before 11 a.m. Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Lt. Anthony Robinson said the driver of the vehicle, a 70-year-old man, passed out and medics transported him to the hospital. Robinson said witnesses saw the man slump over before his vehicle crashed."

Quote: "Police, paramedics and the Great North Air Ambulance were scrambled to a field off the A590 at Lindale at 1.20pm on Thursday May 4. The quad bike driver had suffered a 'medical episode' and required treatment at the scene."

Quote: "Four students were taken to Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center on Thursday after a medical emergency at Russell-Tyler-Ruthton Middle School, school officials said. Ambulances and the Lyon County Sheriff’s Department responded at the middle school Thursday afternoon, after a 911 call from school district personnel. Parents in the RTR district were notified that a medical emergency was reported at the school. In the notification, RTR Interim Superintendent Dick Orcutt said four students were transported to the hospital."

Quote: "Record hailstorm in 30 years hit Renoo Nakhon district of Nakhon Phanom province yesterday pummeling ping-pong ball size hailstones on a hundred of houses and vehicles for hours, causing damages in the areas. Residents staying outdoor were forced to take under cover as the ping-pong sized hailstones falling as the storms lavashing several vilages in the district late afternoon. They said that they have never experienced such big size hailstones before in the past 30 years, and it was the worst hailstorm. They also said after the storms, knee-deep piles of hailstones were left behind in their backyards."

Quote: "A sandstorm blown by gusting winds has enveloped a huge area of central and northern China in thick pollution hazardous to people venturing outdoors. The Beijing Meteorological Observatory issued an alert on Thursday in response to the sandstorm, which was forecast to linger into Friday morning. Tens of millions of residents across eight provinces and Beijing were told to use masks or scarves when outside to protect their eyes and lungs."

Quote: "Five people were buried alive on Thursday when a snow avalanche hit a public transport vehicle in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The victims were travelling in a van from Bani town to Bhaderwah when the avalanche hit the vehicle at Chattar Gali, around 40 km from Bhaderwah town, in the early morning hours and swept it down into a gorge. A rescue operation was on and three injured persons had been rescued so far, a senior police officer said. The van was carrying 12 passengers."

Note: Is that the mini ice age that was hitting Oklahoma with 99F temps this past winter, killing hundreds of people in India with record-breaking heat, baking the Arctic, heating up Siberia and making the methane explode out of the ground, increasing the water temps and killing off coral all over the world, causing record low ice in both the Arctic and the Antarctic, and causing record warming in Greenland and an ominous new crack in the ice there? Derp, there is no 'mini ice age', just a massively destabilized climate as the world warms...

Quote: "State Farm sets auto cutbacks following $7bn loss. State Farm's auto segment plans to close offices in 11 locations around the US, displacing 4,200 workers as the mutual giant reins in the operation following its $7bn underwriting loss last year. The carrier which serviced more than 81 million auto, fire, life and health policies last year listed locations from California to New Jersey that will be shut starting in 2018 and running into 2021. About 6 percent of its 70,000 employees will be affected."

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I love the way you tore up the mini-ice age theory! Laughing my ass off over here! Next time I see a SOTT article regarding MIA (probably this morning), would you mind if I cut and pasted that comment in there?

Investigation into woman's death after dog attack in Buncombe County, North Carolina https://www.sott.net/article/350196-Investigation-into-womans-death-after-dog-attack-in-Buncombe-County-North-Carolina

Vineyards in France suffer at least €1 billion in damage after Spring freeze; the biggest disaster in a quarter century say vintners https://www.sott.net/article/350192-Vineyards-in-France-suffer-at-least-1-billion-in-damage-after-Spring-freeze-the-biggest-disaster-in-a-quarter-century-say-vintners

[there goes the wine]

Spring frost has ravaged production in some of France's most famous winemaking regions, including Champagne, Bordeaux, and Burgundy, causing at least €1 billion in damage in what vintners call the biggest disaster in a quarter century.

Heavy rains in New York area produce flash floods https://www.sott.net/article/350191-Heavy-rains-in-New-York-area-produce-flash-floods

Toronto headed for one of the most prolonged cold periods in over 40 years https://www.sott.net/article/350182-Toronto-headed-for-one-of-the-most-prolonged-cold-periods-in-over-40-years

[we're on the bottom of that, will stay cooler than avg for 2 WEEKS here]

U.S. police warn of opioid drug so potent it can be fatal 'just by touching' https://www.sott.net/article/350184-US-police-warn-of-opioid-drug-so-potent-it-can-be-fatal-just-by-touching

The opioid known as furanyl fentanyl - a version of the powerful synthetic painkiller fentanyl - can cause a fatal overdose just by being absorbed through the skin. It's reportedly caused 19 deaths in the state of Georgia over the last year. [more]

Saturday, 6 May 2017Climate change: The greatest shame is the absence of a sense of tragedy

The great climate silence: we are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore itWe continue to plan for the future as if climate scientists don’t exist. The greatest shame is the absence of a sense of tragedyhttp://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/05/climate-change-greatest-shame-is.html

Our best scientists tell us insistently that a calamity is unfolding, that the life-support systems of the Earth are being damaged in ways that threaten our survival. Yet in the face of these facts we carry on as usual.

Most citizens ignore or downplay the warnings; many of our intellectuals indulge in wishful thinking; and some influential voices declare that nothing at all is happening, that the scientists are deceiving us. Yet the evidence tells us that so powerful have humans become that we have entered this new and dangerous geological epoch, which is defined by the fact that the human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system. [more]

[It isn't that humans are "so powerful," rather it's that we're POLLUTING THE SHIT OUT OF THE BIOSPHERE, NON-STOP!]

Cyclone Donna causes destruction as it moves across Vanuatuhttp://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/05/cyclone-donna-hits-vanuatu.html

Cruelty towards the poor is the order of the day

A Paler Shade of GrayKunstler Exposes The "Financial Ass-Rape" Of American Healthcarehttp://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/05/cruelty-towards-poor-is-order-of-day.html

The EPA climate website taken down for review was accurate, scientists say http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/05/the-epa-climate-website-taken-down-for.html

As the Environmental Protection Agency proceeds with a large-scale update of its website, its climate change site has been taken down, pending review. But several climate scientists contacted by The Post argue that this is unnecessary.“If any errors were present, they could have been fixed with minor editing,” said atmospheric scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science in an emailed comment, who also noted that he’s never heard of any climate scientist objecting to any information on the website. “There was no cause for a wholesale review of the site’s materials.” [more]

Top staffers at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are signaling they are on the side of the coal industry with remarks given by senior policy advisor Mandy Gunasekara at the coal industry's Eastern Fuel Buyers conference.

The new EPA administration signals a departure from President Barack Obama's EPA, which passed actions like the Clean Power Plan and the Waters of the United States Rule to limit power plant emissions and support water protection.

The Trump administration has rolled back 23 environmental protections to date. Gunasekara took exception to that notion, saying "we're rooting out what is superfluous and what is not necessary to actually achieve meaningful environmental protection."

She added, "We'll do a lot more. We're going to keep going" on rolling back existing environmental regulation. Gunasekara told the crowd she will help "tear back the problems that stemmed from decisions of the last administration." [more]

Hah, no, wouldn't mind at all - cut 'n paste all ya want! Their ice age fixation reminds me of the Gregory Benford quote I used on August 5, 2014: "If you were damned certain you weren’t looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn’t see it."